‘Don’t say I was wrong’
Chris Woodhead is suffering from motor neurone disease but his guns are still blazing. He tells Polly Curtis why there are now probably more incompetent teachers than ever
Middle-class pupils have better genes, says Chris Woodhead
Some children are 'not very bright' and education ministers will never change that, claims Chris Woodhead
The prescience of CP Snow, 50 years on
Jonathan Jones: The novelist's warning of cultural fragmentation has come to fruition; but now we face a worse deterioration than he feared
The last word in academic publishing
Christina Zaba: With the loss of printing jobs at Cambridge University Press will go another part of the subtle art of making perfect, complex books
Not the headmaster’s diaries
John Crace's digested read of John Rae's book The Old Boys Network
Censorship row over Carol Ann Duffy poem dropped from syllabus
Teachers challenge the government's powers to censor English literature at key union meeting
Writings from Warsaw
Historian Samuel Kassow tells John Crace that by recording their life in the ghetto, Jews defied Nazi efforts to destroy them
Following in the broomstick wake of Harry Potter
Pupils in Rhondda Cynon Taf will be chasing the quaffle and dodging the bludgers as part of the 5x60 scheme to get children more active
Are computer games a literary genre?
A waste of words, or the driving element in modern gaming? Our writers beg to differ...
Nothing to write home about
Jill Papworth asks whether a writing competition for school-children is just a marketing exercise
Ed Balls seeks power to dictate what textbooks GCSE and A-level students must study
The law would allow the government to set 'minimum requirements' for qualifications
British Library mislays 9,000 books
Text worth £20,000 and a luxury edition of Mein Kampf among missing volumes
Shelved – did Kremlin make my Stalin book disappear?
Russian publisher Atticus cancels publication of acclaimed book by scholar Orlando Figes about life under Stalin
The Bible quiz – it’s revelations time
Quin Parker: Following poet Andrew Motion's pronouncement that young people have terrible Bible knowledge, we decided to test you, good reader. And here's how you did ...